Investing in Natural Capital: Innovations Supporting Much-Needed Financing for Nature
In this report, the World Economic Forum argues that investing in natural capital is essential, attractive and feasible. Released in September 2024, it assesses ways of unlocking capital for NCS as well as the innovations currently emerging in the market. It highlights that natural capital (that is the world’s stock of renewable and non-renewable natural resources that can deliver benefits to people) per capita dropped by 40% between 1992 and 2014, while produced capital doubled in the same period.